A slow­down in the mar­ket for im­ported ve­hi­cles “started in the sec­ond half of 2012, as au­tomak­ers ad­justed their prod­uct sup­ply be­cause of the do­mes­tic mar­ket en­vi­ron­ment. The mar­ket touched bot­tom in the first half of 2013,” said Wang Cun, a se­nior man­ager of CAT. CAT, the coun­try’s largest ve­hi­cle im­porter, noted that first-half im­ports slumped 10.7 per­cent to 526,000.